February 2014 Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Award Winners

These 4 young entrepreneurs have each won £1000 for their start-up in February's Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards!

Giles Mitchell (Office Pantry)

Office Pantry, known as Our Honest Foods at the time of the award, is on a mission to fill the awkward gaps for the adventurous snackers of Britain. Since founding the company, the business has served the office workers of Bath, delivered over 200 snack boxes to their monthly subscribing customers, attended numerous markets, and delivered 400 bespoke boxes to a prominent Bath hotel. The business relies on the honesty of the customers to pay for the price marked items by placing the corresponding amount in the built in honesty box. With a 96% honesty rate from customers, the company is now catering for those at home, sending out their Best of British Snackoria, or boxes full of heavenly snack products. These are delivered monthly and fit through the letterbox, containing a bevy of independently produced British snack foods.

Sten Vermeiren (London Surf Breaks) (pictured)

London Surf Breaks currently takes surfers from London to UK surfing destinations, and is now launching Global Surf Breaks, taking surfers overseas. As an activity tour provider, the company appeals to three levels of surfing ability, including Surfers, Dabblers and Samplers, who have never been before but would like to give it a go for the experience. The trips are open all year round, as the summer is warmer but it can be busy and the waves are typically small, while the winter is colder but the waves are bigger and better.

Amy Win (4Lunch)

4Lunch is a social enterprise start-up that delivers cooking workshops for young people, improving employability through food. 4Lunch offers the ‘Cook Inspire Change’ workshop programme, which gives participants the exciting opportunity to sell their own food to the public on the 4Lunch market stall. The ‘Cook Inspire Change’ workshop programme pushes the boundaries by challenging young people to apply their new cookery and sales skills to a real work environment. Participants will be pushed to think entrepreneurially and creatively, and the business will recognise the achievement of the participants through accreditation.

Julieta Ose (Oxyose)

Julieta Ose was awarded £1,000 for her business in a special Shell LiveWIRE elevator pitch competition that took place at NACUE's 'Student Enterprise Conference 2014' held at Sheffield Hallam University on 15th-16th February 2014. Her business, Oxyose, produces a health drink that contains natural fruit juice, herbal extracts and vitamins, as well as pure oxygen, which the business infuses into the products. The products have a long list of health benefits to the elderly, children, and pregnant women in particular.

You can help decide which start-up will win February’s Smarter Future Award!
Biohm Ltd, Captum Technology, CDB Container Conversions, EcoBox and Enni are shortlisted for February’s Award and are one step closer to receiving £5,000 of funding!
Head to our website now to watch each start-up’s elevator pitch and vote for who you think should join our alumni network! http://go.shell.com/2pdSB2I

Posted on Mar 15 2018 11:00am

Earlier this week Shell Springboard awarded Cambond, Brill Power and Seawater Greenhouse £40,000 no-strings attached funding!
Cambond is a Cambridge based start-up who has developed a plant-based resin with a range of biomass fibres and polymers to make CAMPOSITE, a planet friendly alternative to plastics. Brill Power develops cutting-edge battery management technology to increase the lifetime of lithium-ion battery packs for grid-scale energy storage and electric vehicles. Seawater Greenhouse use sunlight, wind and seawater to grow crops in arid coastal environments.
The 3 winners also secured a place at the Shell Springboard national final, where they will have the opportunity win an additional £110,000!
http://go.shell.com/2GrJOT2

Posted on Mar 14 2018 12:03pm

We’re excited to share that the shortlist for February’s Smarter Future Award has been revealed! The five businesses on this month’s shortlist are helping to reduce waste across a range of different sectors!
Congratulations to Ehab Sayed from Biohm Ltd, Nathan Edwards from CDB Container Conversions, Sam Ghazizadeh from Captum Technology, Stephen Ao from EcoBox and Ali Haddad from Enni who are all one step closer to winning £5,000!
You can find out more about each business here: http://go.shell.com/2I4l6bM